Outback Paramedic

Off to Alice Springs tomorrow. For some more shooting. Everything so far cut on FCP X



www.dropbox.com/s/j4cpdi4sjbbaims/OBP%20Sizzle%20Reel%20V2.mov

The imagery looks good; some nice opening shots shots of the landscape, the dead tree, the Rock, the sunset etc. I was kind of confused about the close-ups of the 2 men though (the 1st guy is looking at a tree, the 2nd guy seems to be perplexed by the appearance of a dog - or something, I'm not entirely sure whats going on there, or what meaning I am meant to take from it).

The shot of the guy looking at the sunset is great (though I am assuming that there is some sort of filter being used to create or enhance the flare)?

Then we cut to the weird buildings, which are visually very interesting, along with the signs for the Sanctuary. Then we cut to a guy riding on a bonnet, and then back to the same buildings. I would seriously cut out the image of the guy on the bonnet because it doesn't fit in with the building montage (it just sticks out). Also I would lose the 'bokeh' effect at 0.47 because it looks too fake (the shot of the buildings is nice enough as it is).

But at this point of the video I am thinking that I clicked on the wrong link - because I thought it was about a paramedic, and I have yet to see any medical stuff. But no worry; I like this video about the commune.

Everything from here on looks really nice in the commune or bar; good nighttime footage (no video noise which is nice), and the time-lapse footage looks great.

The title at the end really threw me "Outback Paramedic" - what...I had clicked on the right link after all! I am having trouble connecting the title of the video, to the 2 minutes of footage I had just watched. I was under the impression that I had been watching a video about some sort of commune or something.

So to me it is a slightly weird piece that has some amazing footage, but with a couple of unusual editing choices and effects (well mainly the incongruous shot of a guy on a bonnet in the middle of a building montage, and the fake bokeh effect), and an inappropriate title.

I hope I have not come off sounding like a bastard, but overall I like it! I just don't fully understand it.

Ha ha no this is just a taster video I put together in about 2 hours. It was really just to test the images with the composers music. There is a lot more to shoot and do.

When it's time to tell the story this will be VASTLY different.

But thanks for watching.

This video is make akin to what is going to come of this trip.


www.dropbox.com/s/j4cpdi4sjbbaims/OBP%20Sizzle%20Reel%20V2.mov

Ah yeah, that makes more sense.

The guy with the stick poking out of his leg....yup, that got pretty medical.

I agree with Simon's comments & would only add that we see the revolving stars twice in two different directions. The shots are spectacular, but let's have them going in the same direction.

thanks

Heh heh funny stuff. astronomers would be horrified to hear that! The fact is the first shot the camera was facing west to capture the Milkyway the second was facing East to capture the sunrise. Nothing much I can do about the rotation of the planet.

Nobody's asking you to change the planet, but in film we often "cheat" directions, light, speed, etc, to match a little something called continuity.